Wednesday, January 11, 2012

here today, gone tomorrow

I
took the pictures of this old long abandoned and overgrown barn last
Sunday.

Yesterday,
Tuesday, as I left the house around quarter to six and turned onto the
road across which is the plowed field, I caught sight of dying fire
and smoke out of the corner of my eye and turned to see what was
burning.

They
burned the barn.

This is all that remains.

What
used to be this...

is
now this...

What
really surprises me though is how much of the overgrown vines and
stuff around the edges didn't burn.

In the first photo it scarcely looks like a barn at all, rather like a pile of hay or some other plants. Close up i can see the barn. It must have been very old. Sad to see it go, but perhaps from the farmer's perspective necessary.

In the first photo it scarcely looks like a barn at all, rather like a pile of hay or some other plants. Close up i can see the barn. It must have been very old. Sad to see it go, but perhaps from the farmer's perspective necessary.

Sorry, but I had to laugh when I saw this. They're always burning things around here and when I first moved here I thought what the heck. I've come to understand some of it. I'm glad you got your before photos at least.

We have a ton of similar abandoned structures in Montana. Nothing ever grows over them and apparently it hasn't occurred to anyone to burn them down, yet. I love taking pictures of them when we go on our long trips through the middle of nowhere.

Those photos really give us a feel for your landscape. Quite remarkable--both before and after. The barn, as it was, reminds me from something out of a Tolkien story. Makes me wonder where the Hobbits went. ;)

Too bad they didn't tear it down in time to sell the wide pine siding (that's what old barns always seem to be made of), which would have been valuable. As it was, I guess they could have left it as an oasis for birds, at least, but then they probably want to plant crops where it stood.